A group of criminals harassed and mugged Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) presenter Shiksha Arora on Monday, June 21, 2021 just around the Globe roundabout flyover.
Shiksha spoke about the incident on Twitter – and detailed how the thugs strangled and left her gasping for breath.
The TV presenter was driving when the thugs approached her car at around 5:30pm – before one of them knocked her side mirror bending it backwards and before hurrying off.
An astonished Shiksha rolled down her window in an attempt to place back the side mirror – and that’s when she heard another someone banging on the passenger window as if to distract her.
It was a that moment that a third person walked to her window, unlocked the door before reaching for her purse which was on the passenger seat. She tried to fight the man to stop the robbery at which point the man held her by the neck and strangled.
“As he was strangling my neck, I desperately gasped for air, I started hooting loudly to get some attention hoping somebody would help me. People started getting out of their cars and that’s when he let go and fled. He went with my purse but I am TRAUMATIZED that he attacked me,” Shiksha narrated.
The attack came just days after one one Chris Mwenda, a Nairobi resident warned Kenyans against walking on certain streets in the CBD beyond 7:30pm.
“Avoid the general 680 Hotel, Bruce House area of Standard street all the way to Jubilee Insurance to City Hall and up to the Supreme Court area especially past 7:30pm. There is a gang of about 4-6 men who are mugging people. One of them walks around with a dagger,” noted Mwenda who had a close shave with the gang.
Reacting to Mwenda’s message, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) appealed to members of the public to report mugging cases to the police amid a worrying trend in Nairobi’s Central Business District.